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Forces of Nature - (2010) See also The Creator of all |
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Forces of Nature - (2010) See also The Creator of all |
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Against Gov. Jindal's Wishes, Crude-Sucking Barges Stopped by Coast Guard: "Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has spent the past week and half fighting to get working barges to begin vacuuming crude oil out of his state's oil-soaked waters. By Thursday morning, against the governor's wishes, those barges still were sitting idle, even as more oil flowed toward the Louisiana shore....
'"The Coast Guard came and shut them down,' Jindal said. 'You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'... The governor said he didn't have the authority to overrule the Coast Guard's decision..."
Some are asking this question: Obama admin is blocking Gulf clean-up: "Is the Obama administration intentionally scaling back clean-up efforts....'The BP oil disaster was custom-made.... The effective oil-skimmer systems utilized by the Saudis and others would work to greatly minimize the damage being caused to the US Gulf Coast. But, The Obama continues to drag his heels as States and lives are destroyed."
Overlooked Danger in Gulf Oil Spill: Methane: "The oil emanating from the seafloor contains about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits, said John Kessler, a Texas A&M University oceanographer.... That means huge quantities of methane have entered the Gulf, scientists say, potentially suffocating marine life and creating 'dead zones' where oxygen is so depleted that nothing lives."
I don't know if this information is reliable:
Nuke Only Option, Gulf 40% Covered By Underwater Oil Lakes: "Matthew Simmons, founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, talks with Bloomberg's Lori Rothman about BP Plc's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico and his views that the Military should takeover capping efforts and that the use of a "small-bore nuclear device" is now the "only option" to stop the flow of oil. He states the flow of oil is 120,000 barrels a day and also describes an underwater lake of oil 1100 meters below the surface, covering 40% of the Gulf of Mexico. Relief wells are useless he says, and will only triple the flow of oil and gas, and ultimately fail."Fact-checking Obama's Gulf Spill Address: "He claimed that Americans 'consume more than 20% of the world's oil, but have less than 2% of the world's oil reserves....As is so often the case, they are relying on the public's ignorance. Most people don't realize that in the U.S., oil isn't counted as part of our 'reserves' unless it is legally available for drilling.... The U.S. government could cause our reserves to skyrocket overnight by opening new areas, on land and in shallow water, to drilling. But the U.S. is the only country in the world that has deliberately chosen not to develop its own energy resources."
Video: OIL SPILL - BULG on ocean floor, methane gas buildup (
Is it reliable?)Obama's Political Oil Fund: "The idea is for BP to turn its assets over to a fund administered by an 'independent' trustee who would decide what are legitimate damage claims.... The White House knows it has no legal authority to demand such a corporate ATM card....
"BP has more than 600 claims personnel working to pay fishermen and others that have suffered economic damage. It has vowed to pay all 'legitimate' claims and has worked through 20,000 of 42,000 submitted so far, at a cost of $53 million....
"By contrast, a government-administered fund more or less guarantees a more politicized payment process. The escrow administrator will be chosen by the White House, and as such would be influenced by the Administration's political goals. Those goals would include payments to those harmed by the Administration's own six-month deep water drilling ban. That reckless policy will soon put thousands of Gulf Coast residents out of work....
"The history of such government funds is that they are always raided for politically favored purposes...
"Offshore drilling, even in shallow water, is coming to a stop as the entire industry considers the additional political risks of operating amid a political panic in which even the President of United States seems oblivious to the rule of law."
Video with important background information: The BP Oil Spill May Be Bad, But This Cover Up is Far More Deadly
CEO sold BP shares weeks before spill: "Tony Hayward [chief executive of BP] cashed in about a third of his holding in [BP] one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst.... Mr Hayward, whose pay package is £4 million a year, then paid off the mortgage on his family’s mansion in Kent, which is estimated to be valued at more than £1.2 million....Since he disposed of 223,288 shares on March 17, the company’s share price has fallen by 30 per cent. About £40 billion has been wiped off its total value. The fall has caused pain not just for BP shareholders, but also for millions of company pension funds and small investors."
"There's plenty of blame to go around... BP's cutting corners but also the environmentalists, who pushed through legislation to force oil companies away from shallow shore lines and into deep waters. ...president
Obama was offered much-needed assistance in containing the oil spell from European countries and he arrogantly turned them down. Big mistake." (Mark Skousen's "Forecasts & Strategies", June 14)Senator confirms reports that wellbore is pierced; oil seeping from seabed in multiple places: "...we’re looking into something new right now, that there’s reports of oil that’s seeping up from the seabed… which would indicate, if that’s true, that the well casing itself is actually pierced… underneath the seabed....
"The ultimate worst-case scenario is that the well is never successfully plugged, said Fred Aminzadeh, a research professor at the University of Southern California’s Center for Integrated Smart Oil Fields.... That would leave the well to flow for probably more than a decade..."
Gulf oil spill "may top 100,000 barrels a day": "BP’s oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico may be up to four times the scale estimated by a government scientific panel, pumping out 100,000 barrels a day in what equates to the company’s 'worst case scenario' and prompting new accusations that executives are stonewalling the truth. The news — revealed by one of the members of President Obama’s Flow Rate Technical Group, a panel that previously estimated that the flow was in the region of 12,000 to 25,000 barrels a day — counter to BP’s claims that it is now capturing 'the majority' of the oil and channeling it into a tanker."
Video: Gulf Oil Doomsday: Notice that workers are not allowed to talk with reporters.Obama faces first backlash in the US over his continued attacks on BP: "One of his most sweeping demands of BP - that the company be made to foot the bill for a drilling moratorium imposed by his administration - has been undermined after it emerged that his own officials modified expert advice....
"Most damaging is the revelation that the administration modified a report by a panel of experts advising Mr Obama. Two paragraphs were added calling for the moratorium, which was not part of the team's conclusions. [That sounds like the UN manipulation of scientific data!] More than half of the experts, who were recommended for their know-how by the National Academy of Engineering, have since revealed that they actually opposed a halt to drilling."
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: Obama Sending SWAT Teams To Inspect Oil Rigs: "OBAMA: I do want to speak briefly to the American people about the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Earlier today DHS Secretary Napolitano announced that this incident is of national significance and the Department of Interior has announced that they will be sending SWAT teams to the Gulf to inspect all platforms and rigs and I have ordered the secretaries of interior and Homeland Security as well as administrator Lisa Jackson of the Environmental Protection Agency to visit the site on Friday to ensure that BP and the entire US government is doing everything possible not just to respond to this incident but also to determine its cause."Meanwhile, instead of saving money for the Gulf and its hurting people,
Obama Pledges New Aid for Palestinians: "President Obama promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday." Gaza and the Hamas actually have plenty of supplies. See Signs of the Times.Video: CBS Threatened With Arrest For Filming The Oil Spill: "Journalist threatened with arrest. Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document. When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.
"'This is BP's rules, it's not ours,' someone aboard the boat said.....As the Coast Guard is a branch of the Armed Forces, it brings into question how closely the government and BP are working together to keep details of the disaster in the dark."
Gulf oil spill figures may be double earlier estimates: "Government scientists say as many as 40000 barrels of oil per day have been gushing into the gulf. BP has said the blown-out well will not be plugged before August."
Drilling Bits of Fiction: "The Obama Administration is under political pressure to reverse its ill-considered deep water drilling moratorium, and the latest blowback comes from seven angry experts from the National Academy of Engineering who say their views were distorted to justify the ban." See Ban Truth - Reap Tyranny
Did Emanuel's link to oil company compromise efforts to regulate it? "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel... lived rent-free in Washington, D.C., for years, thanks in part to a friend under contract with oil giant BP. Emanuel lived for five years rent-free in an apartment owned by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and her husband, Stanley Greenberg, whose consulting firm was a prime architect in BP's efforts to recast itself as a 'green' corporation and recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars awarded through a committee chaired by Emanuel."
Remember Rahm Emanuel's warning : "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. 'This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before."
Obama hopes oil spill boosts support for climate bill: "President Obama tried Wednesday to channel public outrage about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill into support for a climate-change bill, seeking to redefine an issue that threatens to tarnish his presidency....Obama made one of his strongest pitches for comprehensive climate legislation, arguing that the case for breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels has been made clearer by the environmental catastrophe in the gulf....
"'We share the view that this presents an unprecedented opportunity to take bold action to achieve this goal.' [said Daniel Weiss and Podestra...
"The leading supporters of climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill cheered Obama's remarks as a clear step up from his rhetoric in recent months, when he often left unclear whether he was going to push for energy reform this year. 'This is just what we needed...,' Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), the co-sponsor of the main Senate bill, wrote....
[Rebuttal:] "Instead of devoting every possible resource to getting the gulf cleaned up, the Obama administration is once again using a crisis to push its job-killing agenda,' said Rep. Tom Price (Ga."). See The Emerging New World Order
Reid calls for sweeping energy bill: "Reid demanded 'swift' action from Democrats 'to address both the existing situation and to reduce the risks of such a catastrophe happening again.'... [That's easy: allow companies to drill on Alaska's flat barren land and other safe areas, thus avoiding the mile-deep places]
"Committee leaders Max Baucus, Jeff Bingaman, Barbara Boxer, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln and John Rockefeller all received the majority leader's letter and have been asked to contribute their ideas to developing a blueprint for a comprehensive bill. A democratic aide close to the situation said Thursday's letter 'is largely in response to the situation in the gulf' and that Reid will meet with the chairmen next week to discuss a way forward."
Obama vows to fight for passage of climate-change bill in Senate: "The Gulf of Mexico oil spill should inspire the U.S. to cut its reliance on fossil fuels, President Obama said Wednesday.... The House has already passed a bill designed to do that, and a similar plan is pending before the Senate..."
President Obama: BP could face criminal charges over Gulf oil spill: "In a small but telling sign that things may be turning ominous for BP, the administration said it no longer wants its officials to share a podium with BP at the daily press briefing in Louisiana....The hurricane season begins Tuesday, adding another wild card, and tides are forecast to bring the oil slick onto tourist beaches in Mississippi and Alabama later this week."
Oil leak may last months: "Larry Crowder, a professor of marine biology at Duke University, said if the spill continues for a couple more months, oil almost certainly would move into the Loop Current that flows clockwise around the Gulf. The oil then would reach the Florida Keys within a week to 10 days and move on to North Carolina a couple of weeks later. 'If you have enough oil, it can go a big distance,' and some 100 million gallons could be spilled by August....
"Drilling experts said they feared the now-abandoned 'top kill' might have done further damage both to the well and the blowout preventer , a possible complication for the next plan.
"Some drilling experts said 'top kill' failed because the force of the oil and gas pushing up from the reservoir 13,000 feet below the seafloor was so great that it had pushed most of the drilling mud out through the blowout preventer and into the sea. Tadeusz Patzek, chairman of petroleum and geosystems engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, said it was the 'equivalent of six or seven fire hoses blasting oil and gas up, while two fire hoses were used to blast the drilling mud down. They never stood much of a chance.'...
"Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said BP 'made enormous mistakes and probably cut corners.' Vitter... also said the federal government has failed in its response to the crisis, 'particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh.'"
Scientists Warn Of Unseen Deepwater Oil Disaster: [Also a video] "Researchers have said they have found at least two massive underwater plumes of what appears to be oil, each hundreds of feet deep and stretching for miles. Yet the chief executive of BP PLC — which has for weeks downplayed everything from the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf to the environmental impact — said there is 'no evidence' that huge amounts of oil are suspended undersea....
"At least 20 million gallons of oil and possibly 43 million gallons have spilled since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded.... That has far eclipsed the 11 million gallons released during the Exxon Valdez spill....
"Many of those [fish, etc.] species are now in their annual spawning seasons. Eggs exposed to oil would quickly perish. Those that survived to hatch could starve if the plankton at the base of the food chain suffer. Larger fish are more resilient, but not immune to the toxic effects of oil.
"...oil in the plumes had dissolved into the water, possibly a result of chemical dispersants used to break up the spill. That makes it more dangerous to fish larvae and creatures that are filter feeders....The number of microbes that grow in response to the more concentrated BP spill could tip that system out of balance.... Too many microbes in the sea could suck oxygen from the water, creating an uninhabitable hypoxic area, or 'dead zone.'" See Signs of the times
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Government Scientists Are Consulting But Unable to Stop BP Oil Spill: "In what is measuring up to be the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history, the government is nearly helpless to stop the oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon well that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20....The government estimates that 12,000-19,000 barrels of oil are being released daily from 5,000 feet below the sea. Estimates are at about 18 million to 40 million gallons have been dumped into the Gulf since the explosion....
"Louisiana Sen. David Vitter and other lawmakers and state officials have complained that not enough booms have been put up to shield Louisiana's shores, where 150 miles of coastline are already affected. He said he is very dissatisfied with the administration's response. 'The state and locals came up with a plan on emergency dredging barrier islands well over two weeks ago. For over two weeks, the corps and other federal agencies dragged their feet. Then, they approved moving forward with 2 percent of that plan.'"
Fear over Gulf oil spill: What happens if they can't stop it? "With a quick solution ominously uncertain, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is on track to become an unprecedented economic and environmental disaster with millions of gallons of oil destroying an ecosystem as well as a way of life.... BP's oil will cling to a sponge-like coast, entering the pores of mangrove forests and sea-grass beds and the breeding grounds for crabs, shrimp and oysters. Already some of the richest fishing grounds of the gulf are off-limits, idling thousands of commercial fishermen....
"A growing slick could cut into a commercial fishing industry that produced about 1.27 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 2008 with a dockside value of more than $659 million....
"Damage to the wetlands could cost society billions of dollars in lost natural filtration of water and protection of property from storm surges. The coastal areas also are important habitat for birds, shrimp and many other forms of life....The gulf’s coastal sea-grass beds and mangroves are full of burrowing animals that make millions of holes. Oil works its way out of the holes eventually and then storms flush it back into the water, creating what amounts to a new spill.
"Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., an opponent of offshore drilling, said it would be his 'worst nightmare' if the oil flowed for nearly three months more until the relief well was complete. 'It’s going to cover up the Gulf Coast and the wind is eventually going to keep it going south and it’s going to get into the Loop Current, and the Loop Current comes south and comes through the Florida Keys, where 85 percent of the live coral reefs in the country are,' Nelson said....
"Another concern is the possibility that the spill will get much worse. If the wellhead gave way entirely, the amount of oil would increase greatly, said Larry McKinney, the executive director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies."
Top Kill Fails: "...on-scene engineers have admitted that the Top Kill measure designed to stop the leak of oil has failed.... 'It's like an arm-wrestling match of two equally strong forces,' BP managing director Robert Dudley told reporters—except that the surging oil remains the dominant force.... [Man's finite strength can't compete with the amazing forces of God's creation!]
"The next step, say Coast Guard and BP officials, is to take another shot at a containment dome.... There are risks involved.... For one, the new, dense base could further damage the well head and...risk to increase the flow 10 to 15 percent."
Gov. Jindal Asks for Permission to Build Barrier Islands [Now, four days later, permission is granted]: "...oil has seeped as far as 10 miles into some of the state's fragile marshlands, areas teeming with wildlife....They're fighting an enemy that grows every day, gushing far more oil than anyone can mop up."
Carville Slams Obama Over Oil Spill: "...it's unbelievable.... Carville says President Obama 'could have done' several things such as deploying people to the coast. 'They're [The people are] begging for something down here and he just looks like he's not involved in this." See Shamelessness
President in rift with reporters? "...the official pointed out how the White House provided communications and food to the Washington press corps but segregated the local media to an auxiliary room with nothing but a lone TV monitor and a pitcher of water. '"It was a disgrace,' confided the West Point official, who also admitted he was embarrassed by the episode....'If you are not White House press, they just don't care,' said a second West Point official.
"The West Point bumbles came on the heels of Obama's visit to New York May 13 when press credentials were confirmed only hours before the president's arrival, leaving many to pass on media coverage.....Last Friday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs... was asked whether the administration, in lieu of British Petroleum's failures in the Gulf of Mexico, 'just stands there as a spectator and hopes for the best?'" See Media Censorship
Obama’s incompetence: "...when Obama chose his alliance with the Homosexual Lobby over containing this environmental [oil] disaster, I was speechless. You see, Dr. Jonathan Katz was hired as part of think tank to resolve the oil spill crisis, but was fired for an article written against homosexuality over a decade ago. Now, I understand that it’s Obama’s decision on who is hired for this job. But....Dr. Katz is obviously competent, being a professor of astrophysics. He was hired as a consultant to resolve a crisis, not hold public office. And it’s a crisis with the potential to cost the surrounding gulf industries billions upon billions of dollars, not to mention the devastation it will cause to sea life.
"So why was this highly qualified individual fired? Because of a non-related article advocating his beliefs on the immorality and dangers of homosexuality. ....it’s clear the Homosexual Lobby ranks higher on the list than the livelihood of the millions who depend on Gulf of Mexico." See Moral Corruption
How the White House destroyed the Gulf: "Even preventing the oil from reaching shore has been a matter of talk and no action.... Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal asked the government to have the Corps of Engineers push sand into the interstices between the barrier islands as a temporary barrier to oil. It would have been relatively inexpensive and would have prevented the oil from reaching the Louisiana coastline. It was ignored. Now the oil is on the coastline. Birds, plants, frogs, fish and other creatures are dying. Fisheries will be ruined for at least two to three years after the oil is finally stopped."
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